Corazón salvaje

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Image:Editheduarcorz.jpg Corazón salvaje (English for "wild heart") was a novel written by prolific Mexican writer Caridad Bravo Adams and published in 1957 after it was adapted to the screen the previous year.

The story takes place in Martinique in 1903 and describes the life in the Caribbean Sea of a boy that grows to be a pirate (while his half-brother goes to study in France) and the two sisters who fall in love with him.

1 Adaptations
2 Screen adaptations
- 2.1 Mexico
- 2.2 Puerto Rico
3 Plot
4 External links

[edit] Adaptations

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There have been five Mexican productions based on the book, two films and four telenovelas, one of which was made in Puerto Rico. The latest production was the 1993 telenovela starred by Edith González as Countess Mónica de Altamira de Alcazar y Valle and the late Eduardo Palomo as "Juan del Diablo" and Ana Colchero as Countess Aimée de Altamira de Alcazar y Valle . The story, however, adapted by María Zarattini, takes place in the port of Veracruz and the French surnames were changed to Spanish surnames (Molnar to de Altamira and D'Autremont to Alcázar y Valle).

Singer Angélica María played the role of Mónica in the 1968 film and the 1977 telenovela, which was filmed in cooperation with the Mexican Navy.

[edit] Screen adaptations

[edit] Mexico

Production	Mónica Molnar/de Altamira de Alcazar y Valle	Juan del Diablo	Aimeé Molnar/de Altamira de Alcazar y Valle	Renato D'Autremont/Andrés Alcázar y Valle
1993 telenovela	Edith González	Eduardo Palomo	Ana Colchero	Ariel López Padilla
1977 telenovela	Angélica María	Martin Cortés	Susana Dosamantes	Fernando Allende
1968 film	Angélica María	Julio Alemán	Teresa Velázquez
1966 telenovela	Julissa	Enrique Lizalde	Jacqueline Andere	Enrique Álvarez Félix
1956 film	Martha Roth	Carlos Navarro	Christiane Martel	Rafael Bertand

[edit] Puerto Rico

Production	Mónica Molnar	Juan del Diablo	Aimeé Molnar	Renato D'Autremont
Juan del Diablo (1960)	Gladys Rodriguez	Braulio Castillo	–	–

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The original novel by Caridad Bravo Adams sets the scene in the Caribbean, specifically in the French colonies; the Mexican adaptation is set in the Atlantic coast of Mexico. Francisco Alcazar is a wealthy and important man, who owns sugar-cane fields, married to a severe and uncompassionate woman (Sofia) with whom he has a son (Andrés Alcazar y Valle, perpetually pampered by his mother). Francisco had had an affair with a married woman who was physically abused by her husband, before marrying Sofia. The woman becomes pregnant and dies when the chid is 3 years old The boy, an illegitimate child, is in fact, who is his true firstborn. When this woman became pregnant, his husband refused to let go of her, didn't let Francisco recognize the child as his own, and he didn't recognized him either. Thus the boy, named Juan, became Juan del Diablo (of the devil), because has no lastname. Juan's mother soon died of the shame and bad treatment she received from her husband, and the boy was raised with no love or instruction, in poverty and neglect. In his early teens, his mother's husband died, and then Francisco, without telling him he was his son, invited him to live to the hacienda with his family, on the pretext of being a play-mate for his son Andrés. Sofia found out the truth, and tried to send Juan away, to which Francisco objected. Finally Francisco had an accident while riding his horse, before he could legally recognize Juan as his son, as he has planed to. Francisco had left a letter with his intentions, addressed to his friend (and lawyer), licenciado Noel Mancera, Sofia seized the letter and hid it. In his death bed Francisco sent for his son Andrés, and without telling the truth, asked him to care for Juan as brother. After his death, Sofía sent Juan away without telling anything to Andrés (whom later much missed Juan).

Beginning Juan grew up among the sailors and pirats of the port-city, developing a shocking reputation for dirty business (contrabanding licquor), winning his fights, and for being kind and just to his men, whom retributed him with unbound loyalty. He is also a ladies-man, but his heart is still untaken. He now knows who his father was, because licenciado Mancera told him (who is his closest friend and who gave him some education). Mancera has offered him his last-name, bus he refuses because he doesn't need one in his business. Mónica and Aimeé are two lovely countesess ladies, daughters of the deceased Count of Altamira a cousin of Mrs Sofia. They were very respectables in the high society but the De Altamira family is in bankruptcy, whose only asset is their name and beauty, and the long promise of bethrothal between the eldest (Mónica) and Andrés.